Things to Read for Your Blood Supermoon Apocalypse Night Procrastination on September 27, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- : Economics: What Went Right
- : Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Responsibility for Mass Incarceration
- : Lunch with the FT: Mariana Mazzucato
- : Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
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And Over Here:
- Links for the Week of September 21, 2015
- Why I Believe Paul Krugman Over Jim Hamilton: Why a Chinese Slowdown Is by itself Little Threat to the U.S. Economy
- Live from La Farine: Rick Perlstein: What Reagan Tells Us About Trump: "
- Liveblogging the Norman Conquest: September 27, 1066: William's Army Sails for England
- Must-Read: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Responsibility for Mass Incarceration
- Weekend Reading: Isaac Asimov: "Second Foundation", from Chapter 8
- Liveblogging the Norman Conquest: September 26, 1066: Loading the Invasion Force
- Weekend Reading: Winston S. Churchill: 1934: When German "National Socialism" Lost More than 100% of Its "Socialism" Part
- Weekend Reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Shelby Foote and the Convenient Suspension of Disbelief
- For the Weekend...
- Live from Yali's East in Stanley Hall: Privacy Is Doomed, Warns Incoming University Librarian Jeff Mackie-Mason...
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- : Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s Story
- : "Jenny [Lawson] sent an Advance Reading Copy of her newest book... Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things.... I loved it. I loved it even more than her first book, which I enjoyed so much that I bought multiple copies to give away as Christmas presents. The bad news is that my life is such a bloody shambles that I didn't get back to her in time for a gushy blurb to make it onto the back of her book.... I finished reading the book on an airplane, and I was so happy and weepy and amazed that I sent Jenny the following series of text messages..."
- : "Gravity waves.... They found nothing in a useful way... can actually rule out most of the models of gravity wave production by binary supermassive black holes.... The authors suspect it's most likely due to a problem with our models of black hole mergers.... One additional possibility:' We have not yet tested [Gravity Wave Backgrounds] expected from alternate theories of gravity.'"
- : How GOP Radicals Made the Speakership Unappealing: Leaders who try to operate within realistic constraints face certain revolt from insurgents demanding ideological purity
- : Book Excerpt: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
